H&E Equipment Services Opens Branch in Knoxville, Tenn.
Effective April 12, H&E Equipment Services Inc. has opened a new branch in Knoxville, the company’s fifth location in Tennessee.
The new location is a 5,000-square-foot facility that sits on 5.5 acres with a fully fenced yard area, offices, parts warehouse, and a repair shop with four service bays. The facility has the capability of servicing a variety of construction and general industrial equipment for customers in the eastern part of the state and supports existing facilities in Chattanooga and Nashville, Tenn., and Asheville, N.C.
The branch specializes in rental of aerial lifts, telescopic forklifts, earthmoving machinery, compaction equipment, generators, compressors, concrete, and landscaping equipment, and more that are represented by the following manufacturers: Atlas Copco, Blue Diamond, Bobcat, Bomag, Case, Club Car, Gehl, Generac Mobile, Genie, Hamm, JCB, JLG, John Deere, Kubota, Ledwell, Lincoln Electric, LayMor, Link-Belt Excavators, MEC, Miller, Multiquip, Okada, Polaris, Skyjack, SkyTrak, Sullair, Sullivan-Palatek, Takeuchi, Towmaster Trailers, Wacker Neuson, Yanmar, and others.
“The growth that we’ve been experiencing in the Knoxville area indicates a strong uptick in construction in the industrial and commercial sectors,” said branch manager John Rodriguez. “With the enlargement of the Knoxville airport, major corporations are expanding into the metropolitan area, also creating a surge in the housing market. Between the project growth in the area and the proximity of our other branches to support one another with equipment, we are presented with a great opportunity here in Knoxville to provide our customers with exceptional service and capture a significant share of the region’s business.”
In addition to a large equipment rental fleet, the facility provides expanded new and used equipment sales, parts availability within 24 hours for most items, in-shop and mobile service repairs, training, and other value-added services.
Founded in 1961, H&E Equipment Services, No. 7 on the RER 100, is one of the largest rental equipment companies in the nation, providing the higher standard in equipment rentals, sales, parts, and service. Branches are located throughout the Pacific Northwest, West Coast, Intermountain, Southwest, Gulf Coast, Southeast, and Mid-Atlantic regions. For more information about H&E Equipment Services, visit www.he-equipment.com.
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.